Posted in Science | July 12th, 2005 | Comments Off on Carbon 14 dating and Creationism

We are in the middle of a revolution. The Information revolution is transforming how business gets done and what individuals do for a living just like the industrial revolution did in a past century. The internet allows us to share information quickly and easily, a technology that we all thought would speed the advancement of science as the brilliant minds in Universities around the world partnered and compared notes. Although this certainly has happened, the medium of the internet has also allowed the forces of ignorance to share their seductively simple and deceptive messages with an ever broadening audience as well. This became very evident as I investigated the Carbon-14 radioactive dating method on the interenet tonight.